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June 2021

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New Podcast: Tomorrow Is Our Business, stories of people who choose to have an impact on others’ lives

What are our responsibilities as an institution of higher education, and more specifically, as a business school? How do we contribute to society? To answer these questions, listen to the inspiring stories of men and women who embody the impact we expect to have on individuals, society and business ...

Jun 22, 2021

Master's programs

HEC Paris Master in Finance ranked #1 worldwide in 2021 Financial Times ranking

For the tenth time in eleven years, the HEC Paris Master in International Finance has secured the #1 spot according to the 2021 edition of the Financial Times ranking.

Jun 21, 2021

News - Rodolphe Durand in "Tomorrow Is Our Business" Podcast

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[PODCAST] "I’m an orgologist": Rodolphe Durand in Tomorrow Is Our Business, Episode 1

“Our model of the world no longer seems to coincide with sustainable reality”. This observation is at the root of Rodolphe Durand’s commitment as an academic: enabling the quest for purpose and elaborating solutions to societal and business issues. In this first episode of Tomorrow Is Our Business ...

Jun 18, 2021

Executive Education

Capitalizing On Innovation To Respond To Social And Environmental Challenges

Laurence Lehmann-Ortega has been a professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris (Grande Ecole, MBA and Executive Education) for 11 years. She is an expert in strategic innovation and focuses on how companies can reinvent their business models to respond to the challenges we currently face ...

Jun 18, 2021

PhD Program

PhD Dissertation Defense, Alican Mecit, Marketing

Congratulations to Dr Alican Mecit, Marketing specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 15, 2021. Alican will join the Skema Business School as assistant professor.

Jun 15, 2021

S&O - Portrait Hilary Matson- MBA alumni - vignette

Society & Organizations Institute

Hilary Matson, let's pack for sustainable tourism

Hilary Matson, HEC MBA alumna 2020 is the founder of Yūgen Earthside that aims at shaping the future of sustainable tourism. Thanks to her new online platform, she helps us to travel better to protect and preserve our planet’s most vulnerable destinations so that future generations of residents and ...

Jun 09, 2021

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(Re)live our collective successes in 2020

2020 was an unusual year for us all, of course, but it did reveal the full extent of the solidarity of our community towards the Foundation, the School and its students. In our annual report, see how HEC Foundation donors, volunteers and patrons stepped up to support students and finance new ...

Jun 08, 2021

Executive Education

The Crisis Stimulates Innovation And Accelerates The Economic Transformation Of Companies

Christopher Hogg is an Affiliate Professor at HEC Paris and Director of the Global Executive Master in Management program, as well as the author of "Les transformations économiques" (published by Ellipses, 2020). In a recent webinar focusing on the crisis as a driver of innovation and an accelerator ...

Jun 08, 2021

Executive Education

Why Lifelong Learning Is Essential

Over the last decade, lifelong learning has become a necessity for employees, companies, and society as a whole in order to meet the, technological, professional and climate challenges, that we will face both now and in the future. Moreover, according to a report by Dell and the Institute for the ...

Jun 03, 2021

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HEC Turns Up the Volume on African Programs and Debates

The month of May saw HEC Paris lead a turbo-charged drive to enrich its investment in Africa-related programs, certificates and sensitization campaigns. This included the fourth edition of Africa Days, featuring the likes of Carlos Lopes, Rebecca Enonchong and Thione Niang. This was followed by a ...

Jun 02, 2021